Recruitment: NNPC speaks on ‘excluding people living with disability’

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Monday, said it didn’t avoid individuals living with incapacity in its continuous enlistment process.

NAN reports that Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, uncovered this in a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, on Tuesday.

“We have a corporate approach here, and we do utilize a significant number of the physically tested people in the company. We have one with us here at the organizational issues division.

“We have them suited additionally in this continuous enrollment, and furthermore under our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSO) we have helped a great deal of the physically tested particularly in the Niger Delta zone,” he said.

Ughamadu further said that the Corporation had been reasonable for the gathering and would keep on doing as such even with the enlistment procedure.

Prior, Mr. Godstime Onyegbula, President of the Physically Challenged Applicants, said the gathering has been dissenting to express avoidance in the progressing NNPC enlistment.

“We are here to battle for least five percent work chance to be given to individuals living with incapacity as provided by law.

“We have written to NNPC a few times making them comprehend that in the continuous enrollment we were excluded.

“This is because in their structure there is no arrangement to demonstrate the idea of handicapped to be utilized.

“A few times we have kept in touch with them, no reaction, some of the time when we come here, we will be humiliated by the security men. At some point, they will pursue us generally; presently we have come in our numbers from the 36 states and FCT,” he said.

He included that it has turned out to be essential for NNPC to incorporate them as the president has marked into law the Disability Act.

He further noticed that the more significant part of its part are graduates and some with Masters degrees and could do any work with the help of devices.

In a related improvement, another gathering driven by the Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), organized a dissent at the NNPC Towers, requesting the quick repudiation of Oil Prospecting License, OPL, 245 designated to Malibu, which was later sold to Shell and Eni.

The nonconformists likewise required the indictment of people associated with the dubious arrangement.

Talking for the nonconformists, National Coordinator, National Malibu Awareness Coalition, Mr. Shina Odugbemi expressed that six years back, reports were overflowing that one of Nigeria’s most extravagant oil field, OPL 245, was sold under challenging conditions.

He brought up that the previous Minister of Petroleum, Dan Etete, who was sentenced for illegal tax avoidance in France claimed Malabu Oil and Gas including that he has enrolled the organization with a fictitious name of Kweku Amafegha.

He noticed that half of 1.1 billion dollars paid to Malibu for the obtainment culminated through fixes to Nigeria government officials and go-betweens who verified the questionable arrangement.

Odugbemi clarified that a few authorities of the Federal Government went about as a channel for the store after Shell and Eni collected feelings of trepidation over exchanging the cash legitimately to Malibu because of Etete’s conviction in France.